The TeAm does seem to lack the spirit of old and I believe there is a very logical reason. Currently TeAm AnandTech participates in 61 BOINC projects (if I counted correctly). We must also remember that BOINC only represents about 1/2 of the total membership's participation.
BOINC
Projects
BOINC combined
SETI@Home
Rosetta@Home
Climate Prediction
Einstein@Home
QMC@Home
Rectilinear Crossing No.
Malaria Control
POEM@HOME
SIMAP
PrimeGrid
ABC@home
RieselSieve
Predictor@Home
Nano-Hive@Home
Tanpaku
uFluids
Enigma@Home
World Community Grid
Leiden Classical
Cosmology@Home
yoyo@home
BBC Climate Change
XtremLab
SZTAKI Desktop Grid
SETI@Home Beta
LHC@Home
Seasonal Attribution
BURP
Proteins@home
3x+1@home
Spinhenge@home
SHA-1 Collision Search Graz
MilkyWay@home
Sudoku project
Chess960@Home
RALPH@Home
Orbit@Home
MindModeling@Home
Artificial Intelligence
HashClash
Docking@Home
The Lattice Project
TSP
VTU@Home
Superlink@Technion
BOINC Alpha Test
NQueens Project
ABC@home beta
Virtual Prairie
APS@Home
RenderFarm@Home
Project Neuron
Pirates@Home
TMRL DRTG
UCT Malaria
Gerasim@Home
Cels@Home
DepSpid
Zivis
Hydrogen@Home
Magnetism@home
Non-BOINC
OGR:RC5-72
Community TSC
D2OL
Folding@Home
Ubero
ECMNET
Euler
SoB
DIMES
DPAD
eOn
Evolution@Home
Stardust@Home
I'm sure I've left some of the newer projects out and my apologies.
Back when I first joined the TeAm there were three or four projects. Our efforts resulted in Top Ten and Top Five rankings. I remember when the F@H TeAm came to the support of our S@H-Classic TeAm in the final days as we were battling our old nemesis DSLR. I and many other S@H crunchers promised to repay that support. That's the primary reason my mini-team (with co-captains Crazee, Wiz, and myself) has devoted our greatest efforts to medical research in the project Rosetta@Home.
Since the proliferation of so many projects we have found ourselves spread all over the place. Since we are all free spirits and definitely not "communists or socialists" we all crunch whatever we want and do so without any recriminations from any quarter. The TeAm AnandTech Committee is telling no one what they should think or do. That was a Red Herring. We must all guard against being over-zealous about our own particular choice of projects.
No one needs to worry about having the "living crap" flamed out of them. We have several Moderators on duty all the time to make sure that doesn't happen. I am one of those Moderators but I am posting in this thread as a regular member. Legitimate discussions are always "on topic" but we need to remember we are on the same general TeAm.
Let's talk about Captains and Founders.
Since I've been associated with the TeAm, the Captain or more commonly titled Founder has always been the person that signed up the TeAm for that particular project. There was never a requirement or expectation that the Founder do hardly anything else. Actually, there is very little a Founder can do. If a Founder chooses to be a cheerleader or just one of the regular crunchers, it has never been challenged. We have had problems in the past that a Founder has just vanished into the Ethernet but, on almost every occasion, that Founder has given other members the email and password needed for Founders access.
If someone wants to be a TeAm leader all he has to do is step up and start posting threads about his project. To be a TeAm leader you do not have to be a FOUNDER.
Concerning "BRAGGING RIGHTS"
When someone creates a thread announcing how proud they are about their latest milestone, it is always greeted with celebratory replies. When someone creates a thread spouting their stats with a "in your face" attitude, it is usually ignored. Friendly challenges are always part of our forum if they are done in a cajoling manner.
As far as mondobyte's desire that someone other that the Rebel Alliance be the founder of the SIMAP team is concerned, I can see no change as long as the current FOUNDER is still a member of the TeAm and the project, and desires to remain the FOUNDER.
We are all free to come and go as we please. We are all free to crunch what we want as we please. That said, it is sad when a TeAm Mate leaves our group and that is something we never want to happen. However, when it does happen we always leave the light on and look forward to their return.
Now there have been some hurt feelings in this thread but I don't see anything that has gotten too far out of hand. Let's all calm down and just get on with our lives and, if the desire is there, crunch for our favorite project and the TeAm.